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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Craft a Very Hungry Caterpillar

Above is a caterpillar craft that I taught during my student teaching. Kindergartener's spent the first day of this project coloring abstract shapes, line and colors onto white paper with crayons. Then they painted with watercolors on top of their crayon designs.
On the second day, students then traced around giant leaf stencils and cut them out of green construction paper. Then they cut elliptical shapes from their decorated papers and assembled these onto their "leaf frames" with paste. The last step was to add eyes and line details to their caterpillars and leaves with a black magic marker.

"Two girls A.R. and G.H., ages 9 and 11, took my puppet workshop. After
graduating from the advance level they performed The Very Hungry
Caterpillar all on their own without any help. A.R. plays the
caterpillar and the butterfly. G.H. handled all the props. They did this
video in one take, I am so proud of them!" from hagley productions